Although it is highly unusual for me to sleep well when my wife is out of town, I must have.\u00c2\u00a0 I woke up this morning at 6:30 and felt like swimming.\u00c2\u00a0 I blame the combination of extreme cold (I let it get down to 62 degrees during the night) and the ultimate quiet of the awesome new house for my rested state.<\/p>\n
The pool was empty when I arrived, but by the time I had changed into my suit, some of the usual suspects were getting into the pool.\u00c2\u00a0 These two, a fat old man and his fat old wife, are there almost every day.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t swim.\u00c2\u00a0 They do their own version of the aqua-cow dance.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily they were both in the slow lane, which gave me my choice of the remaining two lanes.<\/p>\n
The lane line between the slow lane and the medium lane is always very loose.\u00c2\u00a0 The aqua-cows remove it 6 times a week (2 x M,W,F) so they can fit their whole herd in the pool for the aqua-cow dance.\u00c2\u00a0 They obviously don’t have access to a wrench, so when I swim in the middle lane I tighten the line two or three clicks by hand, but it’s still not as tight as it should be.<\/p>\n
Knowing that these two old fatties would be making a lot of strange wave patterns that would probably cross the loose lane line, I chose to swim in the fast lane.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as I started swimming the old women moved into the middle lane for no apparent reason.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s usually bad enough just to have to see her tennis shoes and fat legs as I swim by, but today was a special treat.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, like several other days, she almost killed me with the extreme amount of horrible perfume\/hairspray she was wearing.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do you need perfume and hairspray to go swimming?\u00c2\u00a0 As if that wasn’t enough, she started doing a new spin move that crash huge waves of stink from her lane into mine.<\/p>\n
It was pretty horrible, but I still managed to get in a decent swim.<\/p>\n
500 Free warm-up
\n5 x 100 Free @ 1:30 (coming in under 1:30)
\n100 Free easy
\n6 x 50 Kicking @ 1:30 (coming in under 1:00, 0:55, 0:50)
\n2 x 100 Kicking
\n150 Free warm-down
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\n1750 yards (1 mile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although it is highly unusual for me to sleep well when my wife is out of town, I must have.\u00c2\u00a0 I woke up this morning at 6:30 and felt like swimming.\u00c2\u00a0 I blame the combination of extreme cold (I let … Continue reading